The controversy regarding Vanderbilt University’s decision, in the name of inclusion and diversity, to exclude Christian student organizations as official student organizations revealed the “identity” by which the University defines itself. Now it’s time to look at political conservatives.

Last week we noted that all of us have an identity, something that gives our lives significance, dignity and meaning. And with respect to Vanderbilt, we showed how an identity based on “inclusiveness” and “tolerance” is an illusion, a sham. No group includes or tolerates everyone. Every group recognizes that without some unifying principle or value, diversity is just a nice word for chaos and confusion.

But political conservatives can fall into a similar trap, and we need to be honest about it, too. For political conservatives our identity can become things like our conservatism. It can be our “love of country” and “patriotism.” It can be the Republican Party.

Even the social soviet republics understood that different ethnicities needed their own republics, aside from the Stalinist tactics of forcing integration in borderlands/uprising staging grounds in hopes the populace would redirect energies towards fighting one another instead of formation into anti-government movements.